Waning
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and getting smaller. The 15 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 1 June 2053 at 11:02.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon before 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 28 days on 1 July 2053 at 02:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2053 at 14:19
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 June 2053 at 10:51
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 23 June 2053 at 02:55
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 July 2053 at 02:01
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 660 / 1613
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 660 of Meeus index or 1613 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 660 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 8 minutes. It is 33 minutes longer than next lunation 661 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 33 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠336.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠352.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 19 May 2053 at 14:01 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 June 2053 at 22:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 868 km
Moon is 404 868 km (251 573 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 060 km (252 314 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 26 May 2053 at 04:22 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 June 2053 at 18:30 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 20 May 2053 at 10:17 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.416°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.483° in the next southern standstill on 3 June 2053 at 04:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 16 June 2053 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.